Contract from Krokodilopolis (Pathyrite nome) dated to the 11th Mecheir in the 8th year of Cleopatra III and Ptolemy IX, in which Sebtitis grants half an aroura of land to her daughter Naamsesis. The endorsement of the royal bank is mutilated, but the tax on the cession seems to have been 600 dr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
27 Feb 109 BC
Extent:
Three columns almost fully preserved from a papyrus roll, written along the fibres on one side. The papyrus is mounted in one glass frame.
Letter from the Archive of Pates and Pachrates (SB XX 14728, C.Jud.Syr.Eg. 1, P.Grenf. I 30+P.Amh. II 39, P.Lond. III 626 descr., TM 164)
Scope & Content:
Conclusion of a letter of the commander Portis and the youths of the unit to Pates, Pachrates and the other soldiers, with reference to the strife against the inhabitans of Hermonthis, the appointment of a prostates of the god Nechtpharaus, and with some instructions. The beginning is preserved ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
29 June 103 BC
Extent:
Lower portion of a papyrus sheet, the upper part of which is in New York, at the Pierpont Morgan Library, inventoried as P. Gr. 39; damaged along the folds and bearing writing on one side, the back being blank. There are 11 lines from the foot of a column, the first two mutilated, written along the fibres. Lower and side margins are extant. The Pierpont Morgan Library papyrus preserves the first ten lines of the column, and the address on the back, written with the fibres. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
Sale by Tagos, daughter of Achilles, and her brother Ammonius to Psenthotes, son of Celes, one of the ibis-buriers of Pathyris, of two twelfths of a property on an island in the lower toparchy of the Latopolite nome. The papyrus begins with a list of the eponymous priesthoods; the third column, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
21 October 139 BC
Extent:
Fragments from a papyrus roll written on one side along the fibres, preserving three columns, the first and the third being slightly mutilated. Mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
Twenty odes by Bacchylides arranged in thirty-nine columns, either complete or imperfect; the number of lines for each column varies from thirty-two to thirty-six. Detached fragments are housed in a separate frame (Papyrus 733 (5)), most of them belonging to four further columns to be placed bef...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd century
Extent:
Fragments of various sizes from a papyrus roll, written on one side along the fibres; thirty-nine columns survive, with fragments of four additional columns to be placed before the first one preserved in Papyrus 733 (1); each columns has an average of 34-35 lines and measures c. 175 x 110 mm; twenty odes are preserved, seven of which are perfect or nearly so; substantial portions of eight remain; mere fragments of five survive. Accents, breathings, punctuation and other writing aids were supplied by the four hands which intervened in the text; paragraphoi are also usually noted. PSI XII 1278 contains further fragments of the text.
Sappho, fragment of a poem concerning her brother Charaxus (P.Lond.Lit. 43, P.Oxy. I 7, TM 62709)
Scope & Content:
Sappho, fragment of a poem concerning her brother Charaxus (P. Lond. Lit. 43; P. Oxy. I 7; TM 62709). Fragment 5 in the numbering of Lobel-Page and Voigt. The beginning of the text is partly supplemented by new fragments published in 2014 (P. GC. inv. 105, fr. 3), see further Burris-Fish-Obbink ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century
Extent:
1 fragment of a papyrus roll, writing on one side only, mounted in glass.
Draft of a Proclamation to Ephebi (P.Oxy. I 42, P.Lond. III 747 descr., Chrest.Wilck. 154, Sel.Pap. II 238, TM 20703)
Scope & Content:
Draft of a proclamation from Dioscorides, logistes (curator) of the Oxyrhynchite nome, with some corrections, concerning a contest of ephebi (youths) taking place the following day: the youths should do their outmost in the performances. Some blank space is followed by the date in a different ha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
18 January 323
Extent:
An incomplete papyrus sheet written on both sides along the fibres, with only a couple of words on the back, lacking much of its left-hand side. Number 42 in red refers to the publication in P.Oxy. Housed in one glass case. Presumably a draft.
Fragment of the Gospel of John (Gregory-Aland P5; P. Lond. Lit. 213; P. Oxy. II 208; TM 61630), containing portions of chapters 1 and 20
Scope & Content:
Fragment of a bifolium from a codex containing the Gospel of John (Gregory-Aland P5; P. Lond. Lit. 213; P. Oxy. II 208; TM 61630), containing portions of chapters 1 and 20. On the recto (written along the fibres) are parts of John 1:33-40 (on the left) and John 20:11-17 (on the right). On the ve...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century
Extent:
1 fragment of a bifolium from a papyrus codex, writing on both sides, mounted in glass
Extracts with Receipts (P.Lond. III 851, TM 22694)
Scope & Content:
Extracts of a register with receipts of payments for rent (in money and fleeces) addressed to Akouis, shepherd and tenant. The issuer is in most cases Hermias alias Apollonius, strategus of Alexandria, who has various managers and assistants. The receipts, written in different hands, date to a p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
216-219
Extent:
Long fragment of a papyrus roll, written on one side and well preserved, containing six columns, the first of which is lacking its left-hand side. Between columns 5-6 some space was left blank. Mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
Receipt given by Horion, son of Onnophris, a priest (stolistes) of Suchus, to Heron for the rent of a garden for one year (26 April 175- 12 April 176). Dated to 12 April 176.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
12 April 176
Extent:
Sheet from a papyrus roll, written on one side along the fibres, almost complete with the exception of a few letters missing on the right-hand side. Housed in one glass case and mounted on cardboard.
Contract (P.Lond. III 951r, TM 22742) and Private Letter to a Son-In-Law (P.Lond. III 951v, TM 31964)
Scope & Content:
Recto (P.Lond. III 951r, TM 22742): End of a contract between a certain Hermias and someone else, presumably concerning property; dated to 249. Verso (P.Lond. III 951v, Chrest.Wilck. 483, TM 31964): Lower part of a private letter to a son-in-law, who is being reproached either by a mother-in-la...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
249-299
Extent:
Fragment from a papyrus roll, broken on top and written on both sides; housed in one glass frame.
